SHIRLEY VREELAND HUDGINS

Her career included being an executive secretary in Research and Development at the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, retiring in 1964. She completed an Associate Degree in Art in 1961. She maintained an art studio on Main Street teaching children and youth for 22 years and participated in art shows from Northern Virginia to Virginia Beach.

She loved piano and could play anything and everything by ear, just by hearing it once! She had a deep love of cats and dogs. She served as secretary for the Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society for many years and helped start Animal Care Society’s Potpourri Shoppe in Mathews where she also served as secretary. For over 10 years, she served as the activity director with the Senior Center at Hudgins, Va.

Shirley was preceded in death by her parents, Virginia and William Vreeland; her husbands, Howard Brigman, Alvin T. Lewis and Howard Hudgins; her daughter, Beverley Marshall Hughes, and granddaughter, Sarah Beth Hudgins.